Sheet-metal box



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JOSEPH B. ROHRMAN, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

SHEET-METAL BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 284,981 dated Septemberll, 1883. I Application filed August 9, 1883. (No model) To all whom, itmay concern/.-

Be it known that I, Josnrn B. ROHRMAN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, have invented anImprovement in Sheet-Metal Boxes, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention relates to an improvement in that class of sheet-metalboxes in which the lid is furnished with a wooden block to prevent thebending of the lid when undue strains are exerted upon it; the object ofmy invention being to so combine the block with the lid that it will notbe exposed and will not de-- tract from the appearance of the box, yetwill effectually serve the intended purpose.

. In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view, and Fig.2 a vertical section, of a sheet-metal box with my improvement.

A represents the body of the box, which may be of square or otheroutline, B being the lid, which has side flanges, a, adapted to inclosethe top of the box, and is in the present instance hinged to the box atone edge,

and fastened at the opposite edge by means of a pivoted catch. The lidmay, however, be otherwise secured to the box. Around the upper edge ofthe box is an internal flange or bead, b, and inside the lid is awoodenblock, D, which fits snugly to the flanges a, bears against the top ofthe lid, and is secured bytransverse strips d, soldered to the saidflanges a, these strips preferably running contrary to the grain of thewood, so that in addition to their retaining duty they serve topreventthe 3 5 warping of the wooden block. When the lid is-closed,theblock D bears upon the flange or bead b, and thus serves to distributeevenly on all four sides of the box any strain which may be exerted uponthe lid, the latter being 0 thus rendered perfectly rigid, and bendingor distortion of the same effectually prevented, while at the same timethe block D is not exposed, and the can presents an appearance nodifferent from an ordinary sheet-metal can.

Heavy pasteboard or other rigid material may be used in place of theWooden block, if desired. v

I claim as my invention- The combination of the -sheet-metal box, 50 theflanged lid B, having an internalblock, D, and the transverseretaining-strips d, as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of two 55 subscribing witnesses. v

J OS. B. ROHRMAN.

Witnesses:

HARRY L. ASHENFELTER, HARRY SMITH.

